The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a draft agreement, laying out the terms that allow u-s troops to stay beyond 2014.
All U.S. and NATO combat troops will leave the country by 2014.
It’s now up to 2,500 Afghan leaders to debate the draft, and decide whether U.S. troops should stay, or leave afghan forces to fight the Taliban alone.
U.S. and Afghan negotiators have struggled for almost a year to write the bilateral security agreement that will determine how many U.S. soldiers and bases will remain in Afghanistan after foreign combat troops leave the country next year.
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